Top Engineering Jobs in Edinburgh

Build scalable, full-stack, AI-enabled products for BlackRock’s Aladdin investment compliance and analytics workflows. Lead technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, production support, and continuous improvement. Apply generative AI, semantic search, retrieval, intelligent assistants, and agentic workflows responsibly. Partner with product, engineering, compliance, and business stakeholders to translate complex requirements into deliverable solutions. Influence architecture, champion DevOps and SRE practices, mentor engineers, and promote quality, resilience, security, observability, and maintainability across a global organization.

Lead and grow an engineering team responsible for Affirm’s international identity platform, including KYC, user lifecycle management, and identity decisioning. Own technical strategy, multi-quarter roadmaps, architecture, reliability, availability, incident response, and operational improvements. Drive major consumer-facing initiatives, cross-functional alignment, and technical execution across Product, Design, Analytics, and Engineering teams while developing engineers and maintaining a high-trust culture.

Leads and scales Rapid7’s EMEA sales engineering organization, managing Solution Engineers and serving as the region’s strategic technical authority. Partners with sales, marketing, product, engineering, executives, and channel partners to drive revenue, retention, consultative security solutions, strategic proofs of concept, demonstrations, and enterprise deals. Represents the company at industry events and translates customer needs into product strategy while improving forecasting, leadership development, and presales performance.

Manages a globally distributed team of Assigned Support Engineers serving enterprise customers. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, performance management, escalation leadership, customer recovery planning, cross-functional coordination, KPI tracking, capacity planning, process improvement, automation, and communicating customer outcomes and ROI. The role requires strong technical knowledge, including Linux administration and web application concepts, plus experience supporting production-critical environments.

Leads the global Site Reliability Engineering strategy and operating model. Establishes SRE practices including SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, observability, automation, toil reduction, incident management, governance, and continuous improvement. Partners with engineering, infrastructure, security, and technology operations teams to improve reliability, resilience, scalability, and performance. Builds and develops high-performing SRE teams while driving operational transformation across critical technology platforms.

Build and govern canonical, semantic, and analytical data products for Private Banking and Wealth Management. Responsibilities include designing cross-domain data models, developing scalable data pipelines, implementing data quality checks and SLAs, documenting reusable data assets, and collaborating with architects, engineers, BI teams, data scientists, and business stakeholders on AWS cloud data platforms.

Two-year manufacturing engineering development program involving two 12-month rotations across GE Aerospace’s supply chain. Responsibilities include hands-on shop-floor support, blueprint and GD&T interpretation, manufacturing process and work-instruction development, data analysis, Lean Six Sigma improvement initiatives, and project management. Candidates need an engineering degree or equivalent manufacturing experience, a minimum 3.0 GPA, U.S. work authorization, and U.S. Person status for export-controlled information access.

Two-year manufacturing engineering development program involving hands-on shop-floor support, process improvement, blueprint and GD&T interpretation, manufacturing planning, data analysis, Lean and Six Sigma application, and project management. Participants complete two 12-month assignments with classroom training and mentorship while improving quality, throughput, and manufacturing costs.

Provide technical direction for GitLab Dedicated, a managed single-tenant SaaS platform. Lead architecture and transformation across resilience, failover, tenant orchestration, change management, automation, and platform integrations. Identify systemic reliability and scalability risks, establish reusable platform patterns, strengthen service ownership, and guide cross-team technical decisions. Mentor senior engineers and advance engineering excellence across the organization.

Engineering internship for MEng and BEng students working on mixed-signal IC projects in analog and digital design, verification, emulation, IC layout, EMC, applications, validation, or product test engineering. Interns develop designs, perform laboratory and silicon validation, create test plans and boards, write automation scripts, analyze performance, and troubleshoot hardware. Positions are based in Edinburgh or Newbury and require full-time availability, commuting or relocation, and U.S. export-control eligibility.

Manage multidisciplinary engineering design across infrastructure and real estate projects from concept through delivery. Lead technical assurance, constructability reviews, design interfaces, consultant performance, stakeholder coordination, and integration across mechanical, electrical, civil, structural, and geotechnical disciplines. Ensure solutions are compliant, sustainable, buildable, maintainable, and aligned with client, operational, regulatory, health, safety, and environmental requirements.

Manage electrical engineering design across multidisciplinary infrastructure projects from concept through delivery. Lead technical assurance, constructability reviews, design interfaces, consultant and contractor performance, and stakeholder coordination. Ensure designs are compliant, innovative, sustainable, maintainable, and buildable while integrating civil, structural, geotechnical, mechanical, and electrical disciplines. Support contract management, risk and scope changes, regulatory requirements, and health, safety, and environmental considerations throughout the asset lifecycle.

Lead and manage a cross-functional engineering team to deliver and scale customer-facing products. Own architecture, delivery, reliability, observability, and production outcomes. Coach engineers, run reviews, improve processes and tooling, and drive technical decisions across frontend, backend, APIs, databases, integrations, and infrastructure.

Lead and manage a cross-functional engineering team to deliver reliable, scalable wealth-management products. Drive architecture, code quality, observability, incident response, and engineering culture while coaching engineers and improving processes to increase delivery speed and reliability.

Lead and manage a cross-functional engineering team to design, build, and operate production systems. Own technical architecture, delivery, reliability, and processes. Coach engineers, run reviews, resolve incidents, and drive product outcomes while balancing speed, scalability, and quality.

Lead and develop software engineering teams ranging from graduate to senior level. Coach employees, support career growth, promote engineering best practices, and foster continuous improvement and innovation. Collaborate with product and organizational stakeholders to balance short- and long-term goals, deliver software on schedule, and improve engineering processes through Agile practices, AI tools, CI/CD, and modern software development lifecycles.

Lead two software engineering teams of approximately 10–12 engineers, supporting development, performance, delivery, and professional growth. Drive reliable product delivery, improve engineering processes, remove blockers, and promote accountability, psychological safety, and technical excellence. Collaborate with Product, Support, Delivery, and Engineering leadership to align roadmaps and deliver scalable financial-crime detection solutions. Engage in technical discussions without coding day to day.

Lead and scale the engineering organization for a regulated digital-asset custody platform. Own hiring, org design, engineering operations (on-call, incidents, release hygiene), delivery against roadmaps, audit and regulator readiness (SOC 2, SAMA, ISO 27001), and cross-functional alignment. Amplify an existing small, specialized team to meet regulatory and institutional requirements while preserving culture and retention.

Lead and develop a team of 6–10 Quality Engineers while improving quality, release, and engineering practices across product teams. The role involves coaching, performance management, capacity planning, risk-based quality decisions, CI/CD and automation improvements, release readiness, incident learning, and responsible adoption of AI in quality workflows. The manager will lead cross-team improvements, coordinate with Principal Quality Engineers, and deputize for the Head of Quality Engineering.

Lead engineering teams responsible for Oracle HCM and enterprise SaaS platforms supporting recruitment, talent, learning, helpdesk, and core HR. Own technical roadmaps, partner with product and architecture leaders, drive SaaS innovation and AI opportunities, and ensure platform reliability, security, supportability, and operational excellence. The role requires deep Oracle HCM expertise, strong people leadership, stakeholder management, and experience modernizing complex business-critical technology platforms.

Develop and maintain cross-platform consumer mobile applications using React Native, TypeScript, and JavaScript. Build reusable components, integrate REST and GraphQL APIs, implement state management, optimize performance, troubleshoot crashes, support testing and CI/CD releases, and apply accessibility and usability principles. Collaborate with product, design, QA, and engineering teams in Agile delivery environments while contributing to code reviews, experiments, and engineering standards.

Develop and ship software for Avakin Life, a large-scale social gaming platform serving millions of users. Opportunities span Unity and game development, backend and platform engineering, general software engineering, and AI-focused technology work. Engineers will collaborate remotely across the UK and EU, solve technical challenges at scale, and build virtual-world experiences that support global social interaction.

Manages the Web Platform engineering team, overseeing technical vision, reusable pipelines, tooling, frameworks, developer experience, reliability, and production operations. Leads senior engineers, recruitment, retention, technical strategy, vendor partnerships, OKRs, and engineering excellence. The role combines hands-on software engineering with people leadership, platform ownership, product thinking, and cross-functional influence across customer- and colleague-facing applications.

Oversee engineering operations and bus maintenance at a London garage, ensuring vehicle reliability, safety, compliance, and TfL standards. Diagnose complex mechanical and electrical issues, lead engineers and technicians, manage stock and budgets, and support emerging technologies including hybrid and electric vehicles. The role requires engineering leadership, strong bus-maintenance expertise, health and safety knowledge, and relevant transport and professional qualifications.

Build and operate core platform systems for users, workspaces, permissions, APIs, authentication, and resource management. Deliver full-stack features with a backend focus, including admin and settings interfaces. Scope work within large existing systems, plan migrations, manage safe rollouts, debug production issues, and collaborate across product and engineering teams. Candidates need strong Python and backend development expertise, software and system design knowledge, testing and security fundamentals, and the ability to navigate ambiguity.